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The Magic City
The Magic City
The Magic City
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The Magic City

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An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherWS
Release dateSep 12, 2018
ISBN9782291050377
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Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English writer of children’s literature. Born in Kennington, Nesbit was raised by her mother following the death of her father—a prominent chemist—when she was only four years old. Due to her sister Mary’s struggle with tuberculosis, the family travelled throughout England, France, Spain, and Germany for years. After Mary passed, Edith and her mother returned to England for good, eventually settling in London where, at eighteen, Edith met her future husband, a bank clerk named Hubert Bland. The two—who became prominent socialists and were founding members of the Fabian Society—had a famously difficult marriage, and both had numerous affairs. Nesbit began her career as a poet, eventually turning to children’s literature and publishing around forty novels, story collections, and picture books. A contemporary of such figures of Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame, Nesbit was notable as a writer who pioneered the children’s adventure story in fiction. Among her most popular works are The Railway Children (1906) and The Story of the Amulet (1906), the former of which was adapted into a 1970 film, and the latter of which served as a profound influence on C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. A friend and mentor to George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, Nesbit’s work has inspired and entertained generations of children and adults, including such authors as J.K. Rowling, Noël Coward, and P.L. Travers.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    My edition had an introduction by Ann A. Flowers in which she states that the book's only significant flaw is that Helen isn't more kind to Philip when she suddenly gets married and leaves on a honeymoon. Well, Flowers ignores a few points of data. 1 - in those days, children were expected to cope better if given less time to dread (think of all the times you've read of a child suddenly being presented with a newborn sibling - didn't they wonder about the mom's belly?). 2 - Helen was swept up in her own fairy tale dream-come-true, her romance with Lucy's father, and may not have been thinking fully clearly. 3 - Lucy is a very nice girl and Philip a whiny brat who would have been fine (during said honeymoon and after) if he'd simply tried to accept her overtures when they first met.

    I believe the flaws are racism, sexism, imperialism, and too much topical slang. I just can't fully enjoy a story in which the only two lions of the kingdom are killed (rather than simply avoided), and in which the strong, smart, and brave girl has to constantly prove she's as capable as the bratty boy, and in which there are far too many references to characters as 'brown savages' etc., and in which there are many words that Nesbit meant to be colloquially appealing but are now difficult, such as 'bunked' for 'chickened out.'

    Otoh, this story is interesting in that it attempts to be somewhat more plausible, giving it more of a science fiction vibe than a fantasy one. And the explanations are charmingly written. For example: We come here when we're too asleep to dream. You go through the dreams and come out on the other side where everything's real. That's here.""
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of my favorite books of all time. Read it when I was around 12 and ten years later I still love it. There's so much imagination and adventure. I would recommend this book to people of any age. Yes, it's a children's book, but it's just too good to miss.

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